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Successful trainers spend their whole career collecting and sharing tips and techniques for improving delivery of training. We’re all focused on the best outcomes for our learners. Whether your delivery is face-to-face or live-online, find and share your great ideas here. Whether developing training for staff or patrons, you'll find tools for instructional design, online and blended learning, tutorial design and training strategies of all kinds.

 

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Presenting Like a Pro Lesson Plan

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

Use this lesson to review the importance of body language and eye contact in building credibility as a presenter as well as standard practices for effective presentation delivery.

Presenting Like a Pro Handout

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

Use this handout with the Presenting Like a Pro Lesson to effectively talk through the standard pitfalls of presenting and how you can avoid them.

Online Conferences: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

A best practices handout created by Karen Burns, Cindi Hickey and Jennifer Peterson in conjunction with PLA 2010 for their presentation: Expanding your world through Web Conferencing: Connecting small libraries in big ways.

Online Conference Project Plan - example

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

Using Excel, an example of a month by month project plan for transitioning to a new web conferencing tool and in preparation for an online event.

Mentoring: Leadership as a Subversive Activity

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

This article explores how mentoring in libraries can serve to build leadership by integrating learning into the structure of our work and through the development of supportive relationships, and learning organizations.

Mentoring Workbook

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

A workbook designed to provide staff with an introduction to mentoring, tools for defining roles and responsibilities for all involved in the relationship, examples of a partnership agreement, and tips on evaluating the relationship.

Mentoring Roles and Responsibilities

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

A collection of best practices of roles and responsibilities for those involved in the mentoring partnership.

Mentoring Needs and Benefits

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

Why do we need mentoring in our library organizations? Here is a summary of the needs and benefits for all those involved in the relationship.

Guiding Ohio Online: Volunteer technology instructor training

Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012

Guiding Ohio Online is an AmeriCorps program that places members in rural Ohio libraries to deliver digital literacy training through computer classes, one-on-one computer assistance, outreach, and volunteer recruitment.